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‘We Are Seen as Disposable’: Rural Residents Fight a Proposed Gas Pipeline
October 9, 2026·8 min read

‘We Are Seen as Disposable’: Rural Residents Fight a Proposed Gas Pipeline

KFF Health News – Read More CHATHAM COUNTY, N.C. — Despite being in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states, this rural county of roughly 85,000 people…

Supporting systems of success
October 9, 2026·6 min read

Supporting systems of success

MIT News – Health sciences and technology | Medicine | Health | Health care | Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) – Read More A…

Vitalize Raises $31M to Scale Real-Time Hospital Workforce and Capacity AI
October 8, 2026·1 min read

Vitalize Raises $31M to Scale Real-Time Hospital Workforce and Capacity AI

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Equitable Care Depends on Intelligent Infrastructure: Actuarial AI and Value-Based Risk Contracts
October 8, 2026·6 min read

Equitable Care Depends on Intelligent Infrastructure: Actuarial AI and Value-Based Risk Contracts

HIT Consultant – Read More Najib Jai, MD, Chief Operating Officer, Arbital Health Equitable access to health care is more than just about geographical coverage. It…

Vocca Raises $20M for Specialty-Specific AI Phone Agents Handle 1M+ Monthly Patient Calls
October 8, 2026·3 min read

Vocca Raises $20M for Specialty-Specific AI Phone Agents Handle 1M+ Monthly Patient Calls

HIT Consultant – Read More What You Should Know Healthcare conversational AI platform Vocca secures $20M Series A funding round led by Norrsken VC, bringing total…

GenAI’s First Steps Toward Measurable Therapeutic Impact in Mental Health: Reviewing the READI Framework
October 8, 2026·6 min read

GenAI’s First Steps Toward Measurable Therapeutic Impact in Mental Health: Reviewing the READI Framework

HIT Consultant – Read More Hadeel Abu Bake, Senior Healthcare IT AI Consultant at ScienceSoft Over the past two years, generative AI has already shown its…

From Documentation to Decision-Making: How Technology Supports Modern Healthcare
October 8, 2026·4 min read

From Documentation to Decision-Making: How Technology Supports Modern Healthcare

HIT Consultant – Read More Image credit: Pexels Healthcare has always run on two things at once: the care a clinician gives and the record that…

‘Medicare for All’ Is Back. Now Comes the Hard Part.
October 8, 2026·5 min read

‘Medicare for All’ Is Back. Now Comes the Hard Part.

KFF Health News – Read More As Americans grow increasingly frustrated with their healthcare system, a proposal that has long been kicked around on the Democratic…

Telehealth Was Built for Two. Interpreted Care Requires Three
October 8, 2026·5 min read

Telehealth Was Built for Two. Interpreted Care Requires Three

HIT Consultant – Read More Philip Rosen, Founder and Managing Director of Capital Linguists Telehealth was supposed to widen access. For patients who do not speak…

Healthleap Raises $38M for Clinical AI Screening Platform Targeting Overlooked Inpatient Conditions
October 8, 2026·3 min read

Healthleap Raises $38M for Clinical AI Screening Platform Targeting Overlooked Inpatient Conditions

HIT Consultant – Read More What You Should Know Clinical artificial intelligence platform Healthleap announced that it has raised $38M  in combined seed and Series A…